To leave no one behind in complex systems of health and education

Abstract

Now, as we emerge from the global crisis of the pandemic, the diverse community of practice of Medical Teacher readers and authors needs to jointly address the existing areas, contexts, and scales of inequity, exclusion, and discrimination in health workforce education and research, and implement the long-term strategies ensuring that we ‘leave no one behind in health and in education’.

Keywords:

• Health workforce education
• equity and inclusion
• interprofessional education

Acknowledgments

The authors thank the European Institute of Women’s Health Director General Peg Maguire for her contribution to paragraphs addressing transgender health.

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The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the article.

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Notes on contributors

Janusz Janczukowicz

Janusz Janczukowicz, MD, MMedEd, PhD, Centre for Medical Education - Medical University of Lodz.

Pascale Goreux

Pascale Goreux, MSc, WHO (World Health Organization), Regional Office for Europe.